Instead of showing you the overdue chuppa that has a half dozen more interminably long rows added to it, or the sweater with three-quarters of a sleeve, or the weaving projects that's currently balls of yarn, how about looking at other people's spinning? That's what I often find myself doing instead of various other things.

I'd say I'm following along with Inspiration Saturdays (on a Sunday), but even though I have the fiber for this quarter's spin-along in the Completely Twisted and Arbitrary group on Ravelry (gorgeous, and I mean drop-dead, hands-down gorgeous colorways from Pigeonroof Studios... and I have eight ounces of superwash merino in my possession), it's not what hopped on my wheel when I finished the Manx Loaghtan-- and yes, that's finished. There are pictures here.

But, just because I'm not going to spin for this particular deadline doesn't mean I'm not obsessively drooling over pictures of these beautiful spins. (All of the following pictures have been snagged and linked to their creator's Rav entries... if you find you love one, click over and let the spinner know! Everyone likes a sincere compliment.)

KettleAndString spun her Rusted Song on superwash merino into bright and lush singles

inbetweendreams spun this Rusted Song on BFL/Silk into deeply decadent singles

One thing I love about this spin-along is the opportunity to really see what fiber can do to the colorway; above are two examples of the same colorway (Rusted Song-- that's the one that I have!), both spun as singles, but on two different bases. You can see they're related, but they're very different in depth and saturation... I love them both!

thing4string plied her Rusted Song on superwash merino into a complicated dance of colors

knitreadspin spun up both Rusted Song and Scattered Lines on BFL

There's also the opportunity to explore the difference that plying makes-- these three skeins are two-plied (two are Rusted Song, and one is the Scattered Lines colorway); plying mixes up the colors more than the singles, but there's still something the individual spinner can do to impact the depth of the final color. Krista, at Pigeonroof, space dyes her fiber, so techniques like fractal spinning and spinning to get deliberate stripe sequences don't make as much sense with her fiber. Even so, as you can see below, these colorways still knit up into beautiful, color-cohesive garments!

rachel- spun her Scattered Lines on superwash BFL into a two-ply yarn...